Dave Gutknecht

Dave Gutknecht has been editor of Cooperative Grocer magazine since its founding in 1985.
Author's Articles
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Why has the food movement accomplished so little against Big Food in various campaigns to regulate and restrict the damage to the health of humans, animals, soil, and water by a system dominated by |
Endcap Articles | October 5, 2016 |
In The Cooperative Society: The Next Stage of Human History, authors E.G. Nadeau and his son Luc Nadeau suggest that conditions are ripe for a transformation to a more cooperative world. |
Endcap Articles | October 26, 2016 |
Nearly 3,000 cooperators from more than 100 countries met in Quebec on October 11-13 at a third global cooperative Summit. |
Endcap Articles | October 26, 2016 |
Among the best results of the recent election is the abandonment of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) treaty, which was an attempt to extend international corporate power and undermine democratic |
Endcap Articles | November 18, 2016 |
One relatively untried method for capitalizing co-ops, a Direct Public Offering, is discussed in a new posting by Food Co-op Initiative (FCI), which is assisting startups across the country. An in |
Endcap Articles | November 18, 2016 |
Investment clubs have been pooling the resources and magnifying the financial impact of their members for a long time—and the potential of that model for cooperative development is getting more att |
Endcap Articles | December 21, 2016 |
It is always timely to examine handling cooperative conflict and building cooperative resiliency. |
187 Nov-Dec 2016 | January 3, 2017 |
Myths and prejudice about food stamp (SNAP) recipients received front-page reinforcement in the New York Times recently, in an article and photo telling us that SNAP recipients purchase “a l |
Endcap Articles | January 19, 2017 |
Looking at today’s social needs, approaches that are based on common interests are both threatened by a dysfunctional political economy and made more attractive by its failures. |
188 Jan-Feb 2017 | March 6, 2017 |
Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op (SNFC) completed a $9.5M relocation project and on October 12 opened its beautiful new store in California’s capitol. |
March 6, 2017 | |
Fair trade bananas enable small producers to survive and thrive -- IF they organize as cooperatives. Organized demand through consumer cooperatives also is key. For background on these production |
Endcap Articles | March 17, 2017 |
The March 2017 Up & Coming food co-op conference featured larger-than-ever attendance and a training program of increased depth and breadth. |
Endcap Articles | March 18, 2017 |
Only to the degree that people are unsettled is there any hope for them. —Ralph Waldo Emerson |
April 3, 2017 | |
The board of directors of Amazing Grains, a small co-op in Grand Forks, North Dakota, announced the co-op’s imminent dissolution—the notification came just before the co-op’s annual meeting on Apri |
Endcap Articles | May 1, 2017 |
Myths get in the way of our ability to restore degraded soils that can feed the world using fewer chemicals. |
Endcap Articles | May 5, 2017 |
The Lawrence, Kansas food co-op in mid-May announced its plans for summer 2017 construction of a major solar power installation—what will be the largest one in town. |
Endcap Articles | May 16, 2017 |
Cate Hardy, the CEO of the Seattle area's leading food co-op, PCC Natural Markets, comments in a recent newspaper report that they are already very familiar with competition from Whole Foods and Am |
Endcap Articles | June 17, 2017 |
Ever want to know a bit more about co-ops in the United Kingdom? An annual summary of these co-ops is now available: http://bit.ly/2t2D0H3. |
Endcap Articles | June 20, 2017 |
Endcap Articles | June 21, 2017 | |
Cooperatives when at their best show resiliency by enhancing member services through diverse tactics and forms of collaboration. |
190 May-June 2017 | June 23, 2017 |